111 quotes found
“To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.”
“Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.”
“God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.”
“Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.”
“Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.”
“It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.”
“Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand. ”
“The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.”
“But if, in despotic statecraft, the supreme and essential mystery be to hoodwink the subjects, and to mask the fear, which keeps them down, with the specious garb of religion, so that men may fight...”
“Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.”
“Everything in nature is a cause from which there flows some effect.”
“Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.”
“To be what we are and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life.”
“There is no hope unmingled with fear and no fear unmingled with hope.”
“Will and intellect are one and the same thing.”
“Peace is not an absence of war it is a virtue a state of mind a disposition for benevolence confidence justice.”
“We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse. Harmful are these and evil.”
“There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.”
“Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.”
“Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.”
